Re: Race with possibility of ties (permutations!)

Whatever, but I consider it cool!I don't know such advanced stuffs, so may not be able to understand how you derived it. I have heard only 'Riemann hypothesis', is it the same Riemann in 'Riemann Rearrangement'?You are a polymath, I am a wannabe

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Re: Race with possibility of ties (permutations!)

Hi gAr;

You are a polymath, I am a wannabe

Hope nobody sees that. I think you are overestimating me.

A long time ago Riemann proved that certain series could be rearranged to sum to any value you want. It is called the Riemann Rearrangement theorem. Now Riemann had a knack for never doing anything useful so he is greatly admired by mathematicians. Anyway, some numerical analysts discovered that using his theorem that you could speed up the convergence of slowly converging alternating series by rearranging them.The effect is quite amazing when it works. In this case I used it on the equation rather than the numbers.

This where it all starts, incidentally Maple uses this series for it's Stirling numbers of the second kind.

From that many approximations are possible. That is how he got his on that page.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.If it ain't broke, fix it until it is. Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.